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Duke Law

Law and Contemporary Problems

2000

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Piracy In Russia And China: A Different U.S. Reaction, Connie Neigel Oct 2000

Piracy In Russia And China: A Different U.S. Reaction, Connie Neigel

Law and Contemporary Problems

Both Russia and China refused to adopt international copyright agreements until pressured by other countries, particularly the US. The US has pursued China's copyright abuses more aggressively than it has pursued similar abuses by Russia. Neigel attempts to explain the reasons for this disparate treatment.


Premises For Reforming The Regulation Of Securities Offerings: An Essay, James D. Cox Jul 2000

Premises For Reforming The Regulation Of Securities Offerings: An Essay, James D. Cox

Law and Contemporary Problems

Cox discusses six fundamental tenets that should guide the regulation of public offerings of securities. It is assumed that regulation is to be re-examined from the ground up, with no political or regulatory constraints.


Foreword, Neil Kinkopf Apr 2000

Foreword, Neil Kinkopf

Law and Contemporary Problems

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A Report Card On The Impeachment: Judging The Institutions That Judged President Clinton, Susan Low Bloch Apr 2000

A Report Card On The Impeachment: Judging The Institutions That Judged President Clinton, Susan Low Bloch

Law and Contemporary Problems

Reflecting on the impeachment and trial of Pres Bill Clinton, Bloch considers how well the impeachment process worked and what was learned from the experience that might be a guide in the event of another impeachment in the future. Any critique of the impeachment process should begin with the independent counsel statute.


Bakke Betrayed, Alan J. Meese Apr 2000

Bakke Betrayed, Alan J. Meese

Law and Contemporary Problems

While it seems that a President who disagrees with the Supreme Court's account of the Constitution faces only two choices--to enforce the Court's decision or defy the Court and take his case to a skeptical populace--there is a third way in which the President can publicly embrace the doctrine in question, while at the same time refusing to follow it. Pres Clinton's Administration has followed just such a third way approach to "Regents of the University of California v. Bakke."